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Hi it’s Patrik Hutzel from INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME where we provide tailor made solutions for long-term ventilated Adults & Children with Tracheostomies and where we also provide tailor made solutions for hospitals and Intensive Care Units whilst providing quality services for long-term ventilated patients and medically complex patients at home.
In last week’s blog, I talked about,
You can check out last week’s blog by clicking on the link below this video:
In today’s blog post, I want to answer a question from one of our clients and the question today is
Quick Tip for Families in ICU: Palliative Care vs INTENSIVE CARE AT HOME, Which One to Choose?
Hi, it’s Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com where we provide tailor-made solutions for long-term intensive care patients and where we provide tailor-made solutions for intensive care units whilst providing quality care, and where we saved money for intensive care units as well.
In today’s video blog, I want to talk about the difference between palliative care in intensive care and Intensive Care at Home.
For those of you watching and listening to this who have a loved one in intensive care that are faced with palliative care or end-of-life care, where the intensive care team is basically suggesting to you that “it’s in the best interest” for your loved one to die and have the end-of-life in intensive care. I’m telling you, think twice.
A) Did you know that 90% of intensive care patients survive?
B) Did you know that you can have intensive care treatment at home with our service at Intensive Care at Home?
C) Did you know that you can also have palliative care at home?
You can prolong your life at home or your loved one’s life at home with services like Intensive Care at Home, or if palliative care is the only option, rather than having palliative care in intensive care, you can have palliative care at home. Some of our clients have been in palliative care actually for many years, and they live a good life at home, surrounded by their families with 24-hour intensive care nurses at home.
So whenever the intensive care team is challenging you with your loved one, dying in intensive care, that this is the best option, they’re probably telling you only half of the story. And they’re probably only telling you from their limited intensive care mindset. Whereas we know both worlds, we know intensive care and we know Intensive Care at Home, and we know what’s possible.
And by the way, we are providing a win-win situation for all stakeholders, which means we are providing quality of life or quality of end-of-life at home for our clients and for their families. But we’re also providing a win for intensive care units because we are cutting the cost of an intensive care bed by around 50%. And more importantly, we’re giving intensive care units a choice beyond suggesting to you that palliative care is “in the best interest” because palliative care needs to be on your terms, not on the intensive care team’s terms. And most families want palliative care at home, not in a sterile intensive care unit where there are other patients, there’s infections, there’s limited visiting hours, and the list goes on.
The advantages of having Intensive Care at Home, the list of the advantages is endless and it’s all there for you and for your family. We’re also freeing up an intensive care bed that is in high demand, which again means we are providing a win-win situation for all stakeholders in intensive care. Intensive care beds are in high demand and we help intensive care units freeing up their in-demand intensive care beds.
This is Patrik Hutzel from intensivecareathome.com.
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Now, if you have a loved one in intensive care and you want to go home with our service intensive care at home and if you want to find out how to get funding for our service and how it all works, please contact us on one of the numbers on the top of our website, or send me an email to [email protected]. That’s Patrik, just with a K at the end.
Please also have a look at our case studies because there we highlight more about what we can do for clients, how clients can live at home with ventilation and tracheostomies and you can look at our case studies as well at our service section
Intensive care at home Case studies
And if you are at home already and you need support for your critically ill loved one at home, and you have insufficient support or insufficient funding, please contact us as well. We can help you with all of that.
And if you are an intensive care nurse or a pediatric intensive care nurse with a minimum of two years, ICU or pediatric ICU experience, and you ideally have a critical care certificate, please contact us as well. Check out our career section on our website. We are currently hiring ICU and pediatric ICU nurses for clients in the Melbourne metropolitan area, Northern suburbs, Mornington Peninsula, Frankston area, South Gippsland, as well as Wollongong in New South Wales.
www.intensivecareathome.com/careers
So we are also an NDIS, TAC (Victoria) and DVA (Department of Veteran affairs) approved community service provider in Australia. Also have a look at our range of full service provisions.
Also, we have been part of the Royal Melbourne health accelerator program in the past for innovative healthcare companies.
https://www.thermh.org.au/news/innovation-funding-announced-melbourne-health-accelerator
https://www.melbournehealthaccelerator.com/
Thank you for watching this video and thank you for tuning into this week’s blog.
This is Patrik from intensive care at home, and I’ll see you again next week in another update.